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Amuse-Bouches V – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part II)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       March 9, 2019 Amuse-Bouches V – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part II)2019-03-09T09:56:11+00:00     Blog     1 Comment
In Part I we looked at the history of trauma theory and framed its various debates against the backdrop of two key problems that any theory of trauma has...
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Amuse-Bouches IV – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part I)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       February 25, 2019 Amuse-Bouches IV – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part I)2019-03-08T18:11:11+00:00     Blog     3 Comments
Trauma often appears to be a very broadly-spread notion in psychotherapy. Its urgency in clinical settings seems to outpace the theoretical rigour we can give it, leading the label...
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The Unconscious of ‘Things’

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 13, 2018 The Unconscious of ‘Things’2018-08-14T21:09:19+01:00     Blog     1 Comment
We’re going to start with a naive question – what is the ‘stuff’ of the unconscious? This short article is about the unconscious of ‘things’, and if we think...
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Amuse-Bouches III – The Obsessional Subjunctive

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       February 10, 2018 Amuse-Bouches III – The Obsessional Subjunctive2018-02-10T16:56:30+00:00     Blog     2 Comments
It is often said that psychoanalysts should look at structure, not surface symptoms, in order to make a clinical diagnosis. There are two problems with this. First, the definition...
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VIDEO – What’s so Unconscious about the Unconscious?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       December 31, 2017 VIDEO – What’s so Unconscious about the Unconscious?2018-01-01T13:25:29+00:00     Blog     No Comment
A few months back I wrote a rather long article tracing the historical debate about the nature of the unconscious in psychoanalysis across three key turning points – 1915,...
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Amuse-Bouches II – Testimony and the Pass

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       October 25, 2017 Amuse-Bouches II – Testimony and the Pass2017-10-25T09:52:09+01:00     Blog     2 Comments
Who is ‘allowed’ to tell your story? Are you and you alone the only one that can represent your unique experience, past, and identity? Or is it sometimes okay...
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Amuse-Bouches I – The Yerodia Case

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 27, 2017 Amuse-Bouches I – The Yerodia Case2017-09-27T11:04:28+01:00     Blog     2 Comments
This is Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi, helping Lacan into his car as he leaves his seminar in March, 1980. And this is Yerodia again, around the time of the international...
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What’s so Unconscious about the Unconscious?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       April 27, 2017 What’s so Unconscious about the Unconscious?2017-06-18T15:54:30+01:00     Blog     2 Comments
What does it mean to say that something is ‘unconscious’? The idea of the unconscious is the single biggest differentiator separating psychoanalysis from all other ‘psy-’ practices. Fidelity to...
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Pornography and the Paradoxes of Pleasure – On the ‘Identity of Perception’

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       October 28, 2016 Pornography and the Paradoxes of Pleasure – On the ‘Identity of Perception’2017-03-25T19:31:45+00:00     Blog     6 Comments
“It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience. It was the closest I’d ever come...
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Inside Out and the ‘Science’ of Emotions

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 20, 2015 Inside Out and the ‘Science’ of Emotions2017-03-26T22:05:08+01:00     Blog     1 Comment
No film in recent years has had quite as much input from the field of psychology as Disney and Pixar’s latest offering, Inside Out. Charming though the film is,...
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LacanOnline.com is a site for exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, 1901 - 1981.
Trained as a psychiatrist, he abandoned the profession in favour of psychoanalysis in the early thirties. After publishing his paper on the Mirror Stage in 1949, for which he is probably best known to the general public, in the early fifties Lacan embarked on a project he called the 'Return to Freud'.

Lacan began holding yearly seminars, starting in 1952, re-examining Freud's work. At the time, the theory and technique of psychoanalysis was facing a complete overhaul at the hands of post-Freudian psychoanalysts, many of whom had emigrated to the United States after the war. Lacan railed against their teaching of Freud, seeing it as an oversimplification of his work and a corruption of psychoanalytic technique reducing it to the status of life management. Through his seminars he offered another interpretation of Freud's work and psychoanalytic theory. Inventive, radical and adventurous, many still believe Lacan's to be a creative mis-reading of Freud.

However Lacan's seminars grew in popularity and as his teaching developed from a reading of Freud's text to an elaboration of his own concepts his teaching became more influential. Lacan continued to give yearly seminars until the year before his death in 1981. By that time, he had become a major intellectual figure in public life and had both created and disbanded his own school, separating his members both from the established psychoanalytic institutions and from each other.

Today, Lacanian theory is advanced by a number of disparate groupings of his followers and the technique of psychoanalysis he developed is practiced clinically by Lacanian analysts around the world.

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